Searching For 2E Art work

[shadow]

Yeah, I really miss 2e artwork. Sure I like 3e rules a lot better, but I 2e artwork will always hold a special place for me. All the 2e artwork really envoked a sense of "high fantasy" and adventure. Most of the 3e artwork just seems a little weird. What's with the impractical spikey armor? Why do all adventurers dress in bondage clothing? And is it just me, or does Hennet the iconic sorcerer look a little too much like he's into S&M?

 

[garyh]

This one right here has always been D&D to me.

Agreed. That's probably my favorite piece from the 2E PHB. I dig 3E art, but that pic just takes the cake.

 

[Black_Kaioshin]

Cool. Thanks for the pic. I really miss the "high fantasy" feel that 2e envoked. 3e art work just isn't the same... but anywho, if you all know of more pictures and stuff that I can look at, just let me know. I can't really look in my ph because I don't own one anymore.

 

[Kai Lord]

This one right here has always been D&D to me.

Five adventurers gloating over killing a wyrmling? Nah, that isn't D&D to me. THIS is D&D:

 

[Black_Kaioshin]

Sweet! Thanks, Kai Lord and A2Z. I love this stuff.

 

[Wren]

How about links to the webages of some of the core full color artists from 2E?

Clyde Caldwell
Keith Parkinson
Jeff Easley
and my personal favorite, Larry Elmore

 

[Kai Lord]

Sweet! Thanks, Kai Lord and A2Z. I love this stuff.

No problem, that Caldwell piece with the black dragon isn't 2E though, its from the 1st Edition Dragonlance module Dragons of Despair. I just like it.

 

[Black_Kaioshin]

Cool beans. Thanks for the sites, Wren.

 

[Eric Lofgren]

When I think of old 2e stuff and for that matter, when I think of Dragons, I think of this guy, Den Beauvais:

http://landfantasy.free.fr/Auteurs B/Beauvais/beauvais.htm

He never gets enough attention in my opinion. He was one of my old D&D inspirations. This link is to a gallery of sorts, but his home site is worth a visit. I would have linked to it, but it seems to be down at the moment. There is a link to his site in this gallery.